List of mayors of Kyiv explained

The following is a list of mayors of the city of Kyiv, Ukraine. It includes positions equivalent to mayor, such as chairperson of the city council executive committee.

Wójt (head of city government)

Grand Duchy of Lithuania (from 1569 - Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth)

• Zanko (Hanko) Onkovych, c.1498/1502-1514^[1]
• Jan, c.1514-c.1528^[2]
• Ivan Cherevchey, 1528-1540 ^[3]
• Jan Dkhorevs'kyj, c.1544-1548^[4]
• Semen Meleshkovych, 1548-1550^[5]
• Maksym Khonych, 1550-1555^[6]
• Semen Meleshkovych, 1555/1558-1563 (2nd term)
• Bohush Lenkevych of Kotwicz coat of arms, 1563-1564^[7]
• Yurii Klymovych, 1565-1566^[8]
• Vasyl Cherevchey, 1566-1567^[9]
• Stanislav Sokolovs'kyj, 1568-1570 ^[10]
• Ustym Fits-Kobyzevych of Masalski coat of arms, 1569 (acting)
• Havrylo Roj, 1570-1575^[11]
• Semen Konashkovych, 1575 (acting)
• Fedir Cherevchey, 1576-1581
• Semen Konashkovych, 1581-1587
• Fedir Vovk, 1587-1592/1593
• Erazm Strawinski of Sulima coat of arms, 1593^[12]
• Yatsko Balyka of Abdank coat of arms, 1593-1612^[13]
• Fedir Khodyka-Kobyzevych of Masalski coat of arms, 1613-1625
• Artem Konashkovych, 1625-1628
• Sozon Balyka, 1628-1629
• Ivan Yevseyovych, 1629-1631
• Stefan Kryvkovych, 1631-1632^[14]
• Yosyf Khodyka, 1633-1641^[15]
• Samiylo (Samuel) Mefedovych, 1641-1644 ^[16]
• Andrii (Andrzej) Khodyka, 1644-1649^[17]

Cossack Hetmanate^[18]

• Bohdan Somkovych, 1649-1651
• Andrzej Khodyka, 1651 (restoration of Polish-Lithuanian rule by Janusz Radziwiłł)
• Bohdan Somkovych, 1653-1660
• Danilo Polotsky, 1660-1675
• Fedir-Zhdan Tadryna, 1675-1677
• Zhdan Tadryna, 1677-1687
• Jan Bykovsky, 1687-1699
• Fedor Bykovsky, 1699
• Dmytro Polotsky, 1699-1733

Russian Empire (as part of Kiev Governorate)

• Kuzma Krychevyts, 1733–1734
• Pavlo Voynich, 1734-1751
• Ivan Sychevsky, 1753-1766
• Hryhoriy Pyvovarov, 1766-1781
• Yakiv Davydovsky, 1781-1785
• Vasyl Kopystensky, 1785-1787 (head of city duma)
• Yuhym Mytyuk, 1787-1790 (head of city duma)
• Hryhoriy Radzytsky, 1790-1801 (head of city duma until the restoration of Magdeburg Law in 1798)
• Heorhiy Rybalsky, 1801-1813
• Philip Lakerda, 1813-1814
• Mykhailo Hryhorenko, 1815-1826
• Hryhoriy Kyselivsky, 1826-1834

Mayors (heads of the city)

Russian Empire

• , 1835-1837
• , 1837-1838
• , 1838-1841
• , 1841-1844
• , 1844-1847
• , 1847-1851
• , 1851-1853
• , 1853-1854
• , 1854-1857
• , 1857-1860
• , 1860-1863
• , 1863-1871
• Pavlo Demidov San Donato, 1871–1872, 1873-1874
• , 1872-1873
• , 1875-1879
• , 1879-1884
• , 1884-1887
• , 1887-1900
• , 1900-1906
• , 1906-1916
• , 1916-1917

Ukrainian People's Republic

• Yevhen Ryabtsov, 1917-1918
• Ipolyt Dyakov, 1918
• Yevhen Ryabtsov, 1918-1919
• , 1919
• , 1920 (military commissar)

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

• Hryhoriy Chudnovsky, 1918 (civil commissar)
• Andrei Bubnov, 1919 (head of City Executive Council)
• Andriy Ivanov, 1919-1920 (head of Kyiv Governorate Revolutionary Committee)
• Mykhailo Vetoshkin, 1920 (head of Kyiv Governorate Revolutionary Committee)
• Yan Gamarnik, 1920-1923 (until 1921 - head of Kyiv Governorate Revolutionary Committee, after 1921 - head of Kyiv City Council)
• Hryhoriy Hrynko, 1923-1925
• , 1925
• Panas Lyubchenko, 1925-1927
• , 1928-1932
• , 1932
• , 1932-1934
• , 1934-1937
• , 1937
• Taras Mitulynsky, 1937 (acting head of city council)
• , 1937-1938 (acting)
• , 1938-1941

Reichskommissariat Ukraine (burgomasters)

• Oleksander Ohloblyn, 1941
• Volodymyr Bahaziy, 1941-1942
• , 1942-1943

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic

• , 1943-1944
• , 1944-1946
• , 1946-1947
• , 1947-1963
• , 1963-1968
• Volodymyr Gusev, 1968-1979
• Valentyn Zghursky, 1979-1990
• Mykola Lavrukhin, 1990
• , 1990-1991

Ukraine

• Hryhoriy Malyshevsky, 1991
• Oleksandr Mosiyuk, 1991-1992 (acting)
• Ivan Dankevych, 1992 (acting)
• Vasyl Nesterenko, 1992-1994 (head of city council)
• Leonid Kosakivsky, 1994-1998 (head of city council, in 1997-1998 - mayor)
• Oleksandr Omelchenko, 1998-2006 (head of city council in 1998-1999, mayor since 1999)
• Leonid Chernovetskyi, 2006-2012
• Halyna Hereha, 2012-2014 (acting)
• Vitali Klitschko, 2014-

See also

• Mayor of Kyiv
• Kyiv City Council
• Kyiv City Administration
• Timeline of Kyiv
• History of Kyiv

Notes and References

1. Web site: On the Question of introduction of Magdeburg Law in Kyiv.
2. Web site: Kyiv in late 15th - early 17th century.
3. Web site: Privileges for the post of Wojt for Kyiv's Cherevchey burgher family.
4. Web site: Kyiv in late 15th - early 17th century.
5. Web site: Kyiv in late 15th - early 17th century.
6. Web site: Kyiv in late 15th - early 17th century.
7. Web site: Kyiv in late 15th - early 17th century.
8. Web site: Relations of Kyiv city community with voivode prince V. K. Ostrozky . |
9. Web site: Relations of Kyiv city community with voivode prince V. K. Ostrozky . |
10. Web site: Kyiv in late 15th - early 17th century.
11. Web site: Relations of Kyiv city community with voivode prince V. K. Ostrozky . |
12. Web site: Clientele of Prince Vasyl Kostiantyn Ostrozky .
13. Web site: Balykas (Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine).
14. Web site: Functions and main Directions of Activity of Kyiv Magistrate in the 16th - first half of 17th century.
15. Web site: Kyiv in late 15th - early 17th century.
16. Web site: Relations of Kyiv city government with voivodes in 1559-1648.
17. Web site: Relations of Kyiv city government with voivodes in 1559-1648.
18. Web site: Kyiv Wojts of the 2nd half of 17th - early 18th century.